Improved cot-bed



.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES IV. IRVIN, OF S'l. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVED COT-BED.

To all whom, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES IV. IRWIN, ot' the city and county of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cot-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, which represents an end A perspective of my said' cot-frame.

The object of my invention is to furnish the public with a cheap. substantial, and portable cot-frame. The manner in which I propose to effect this object will appear from the following description, which will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

I first make the head and foot pieces, which are shown in the drawing by A A, and in each end of them I cut a mortise and introduce therein the ends of the rails B B. I then pivot the legs C C of the cot to the head and foot pieces between the ends of the rails, so that they can be folded up against the said pieces, as indicated by the dotted arcs a a. In the ends of the rails, outside of the head and foot pieces, I cut angular notches to receive the legs when the cot is set up, by which means the head and foot boards are kept from slipi ping oi of the ends of the rails. These notches are shown by b b. A frame made in this manner is very sim ple, cheap, substantial, and portable, and may be stored in a very small compass. It is readily taken apart, and consists of few pieces, none of which are likely to be mislaid or lost. When taken apart, the head and foot pieces may beplaced on the canvas bottom, and the whole rolled up in a small cylindrical bundle.

I claim as my invention- The head and foot pieces A A, rails B B, and legs O C, when the whole are made and arranged with respect to each other substan tially in the manner described, for the purpose specified.

CHAS. NV. IR\VIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN K. HALE', M. A. MULANY. 

